Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border town of Carrickmacross were not to be hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week. "Do you know," said another, "there are only ten cats left in Carrickmacross...
Silk that doesn't come from worms, wool that doesn't come from sheep, and man-made skin and hair that doesn't grow on humans can now be produced by a process announced by Robert B. Woodward, associate professor of chemistry, this week in the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society...
Assisted by Charles H. Schramm, Woodward succeeded in forming long protein like molecules which are comparable to those of hair, muscle, nerves, and skin. He has cautiously termed these chaina protein "analogs," until he can examine the molecules more thoroughly at more points in the linkage...
...gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin. He squeezed in & out seven times and hauled out seven people before he collapsed. Then firemen rescued three more...
...recently, he dodged the sun: "I should get wrinkled. What am I, a prune?" Every week he puts away handfuls of costly chocolates, most of which have long since settled in a small bulge in the middle of his 5 ft. 3 in., 140-lb. frame. Billy's skin has a worn, beige look, grading to blue under his quick, cold eyes...